Steve Nicosia
Pittsburgh Pirates 1978–1983; San Francisco Giants 1983–1984; Montreal Expos 1985; Toronto Blue Jays 1985
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -44.8 | -50.2 | .126 | -0.1 |
| 1979 | 70 | 215 | 191 | 22 | 55 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 2 | .288 | .364 | .435 | .799 | 112.0 | 114.4 | .357 | 1.6 |
| 1980 | 60 | 201 | 176 | 16 | 38 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 1 | .216 | .291 | .278 | .570 | 52.5 | 59.2 | .263 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 54 | 184 | 169 | 21 | 39 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 1 | .231 | .286 | .337 | .623 | 69.9 | 73.9 | .290 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 39 | 114 | 100 | 6 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .280 | .348 | .340 | .688 | 85.8 | 91.0 | .313 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 36 | 86 | 79 | 8 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .215 | .253 | .278 | .531 | 40.1 | 47.7 | .245 | -0.1 |
| 1984 | 48 | 144 | 132 | 9 | 40 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .303 | .336 | .462 | .798 | 124.6 | 124.9 | .361 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 48 | 94 | 86 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .186 | .247 | .209 | .457 | 31.9 | 31.2 | .224 | -0.2 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-08-05 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1984-07-18 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1981-06-02 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1984-06-28 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1979-05-18 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.